Many friends and acquaintances have been visiting the city lately. Weekends have featured repeated trips to cheap touristical venues. This week’s visitors are my brother Robert and his girlfriend Robyn. Yesterday, we wandered around my neighborhood, into Central Park., and over to MoMA, where we were greeted by Martin Kippenberger’s Pope-offending crucified frog and a free screening of The French Connection (thumbs decidedly skyward).

The above photo is inspired by the scene from Manhattan in which Woody and Diane’s characters stay out all night walking her dog. I can’t think of a more romantic scene from any movie at the moment. Below we’ve got the Robs sitting on a bridge in C.P. with the E. 59th Street and Fifth Ave. intersection backdropping.